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Europe's new heavy-lift rocket, Ariane 6, made its inaugural flight from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana at 16:00  local time on 9 July (20:00 BST, 21:00 CEST).

Experience railway signalling/dispatching control centres through SimSig, a commercial train simulator that lets you operate and route trains to their destination.

We’re introducing the “free as in beer”, self-hosted and AGPL-licensed Plausible Community Edition (CE).

Creating custom website skins with the uBlock Origin ad blocker.

We're a bunch of ex-Triplebyte people. We loved it there, and we're trying to make something like it. Here's how.

Motivation There is a constant assault on our code base in the form of feature enhancements, bug fixes, and hygiene. Envision each incoming change as a bomb 💣, and the damage it does is based on the number of files impacted. Onion layering promises to reduce…

The gift is intended to address "twin challenges of declining levels of health and education," Mike Bloomberg, who donated the funds, said.

Maelstrom is a fast Rust, Go, and Python test runner that runs every test in its own container. Tests are either run locally or distributed to a clustered job runner. - maelstrom-software/maelstrom

Strflow redefines journaling and note-taking on iOS and Mac, combining the ease of a messaging app with a sophisticated timeline-based interface. Synced via iCloud and secured with end-to-end encryption, Strflow ensures your notes are both accessible and…

The Girls in Tech women's tech community is closing its doors after 17 years, according to a newsletter from founder Adriana Gascoigne.

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Intuit Inc. is cutting 1,800 employees, swapping out low performers and executives with fresh hires meant to sharpen the company’s focus on products that use artificial intelligence.

Nature - Astrobiologist and writer Seven Rasmussen reflects on the craft and complexities of being a scientist-storyteller.

We're open-sourcing a tool that may be useful to people who develop code on NixOS and distribute it in binary form.

We've stabilized our Linux build, download it today!

Research showing that vision language models (VLMs) fail on simple visual tasks that are easy for humans.

The Whataburger app works as a power outage tracker, handy since the electric company doesn't show a map.
Still nearly 1.9 million power outages.